Formal thank you to gangsta rap.

It's a little off the politics subject, but it does make social points.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank gangsta rap for doing so much good to society. The way you desensitize children to the suffering of the weak is inspiring. How would we ever get by if you had not come along and reduced the value of a life to the money it takes to buy the bullet? I would also like to thank them for devaluing women, gays and anyone that's different than them. Thank you gangsta rap, you have inspired many young lives to be more socially conscious, to care more about the world around them, to make a difference. Of course you would never attempt to change my generation into unthinking thugs, (by the way, thug is bad). Apparently you thought you'd do a little more good by making thousands of suburban kids actually WANT to live in a slum and deal drugs. Thanks to you, our heroes are no longer Nathan Hale or George Washington, but are so-called "martyrs" for their cause such as 2pac. I thank you for that, how would we ever get by without you?

Numbers

The right wing scumbag hath returned!

As I sit here, the school has lowered the graduation requirements for social studies classes, while raising the math and science requirements. Now most people see this as a step forward, as do I, but they don't see the two steps back we're taking. As I thought about it more and more, and after reading a book review about a book called "Why Read?" It became increasingly obvious that there was only one reason to raise the math and science requirements, the world needs more engineers and architects! That is the entire purpose of us going to school, to make more of what the world needs, if the world needs more stockbrokers, you can bet that the economics requirements go up. What ever happened to "you can be whatever you want to be!"? apparently they don't care so much about what YOU want to be, as much as they care about what they need. And what would be their gain in teaching us to be whatever we want to be? The economy needs it! That is the only reason, to make more eco-fodder. And if they cut back the social studies requirements, the politicians get exactly what they want: an uninformed, easily impressionable public, each with a vote. And that's how I shall leave you.

Responsibility

I recently saw a story on the internet about some research that said that genetics may cause obesity in children. Of course, they stated that children of obese mothers are more likely to be obese. They just disproved their own theory. Ok, what ACTUALLY causes obesity? Bad eating and not exercising enough (there may be other causes, but those are the main ones) Ok, if you're obese, it's pretty safe to say that you're not exercising enough and not eating the right foods, if you're a mother, then you (usually) live in the same house as your children. And that means that they'll get the same view of the refridgerator as you do, thus they'll eat (mostly) the same foods as you.

Kids look up to their parents, if they see their parents sitting around, then they'll sit around.

I also saw a story about how they're considering banning "unhealthy" food ads from kid-oriented TV shows. Ok, i'm not even going to start on the obvious 1st amendment violations here. But why does the government think that they can stop kids from getting obese? Why do they have to be the parent here? It's about personal responsibility, something that is long gone from our culture, we're a reactionary culture, "if i'm fat, it's not my fault, it must be genetics" it's nothing more than a cop-out.

Burning bridges.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6992078/

To mend ties with Europe? Who needs to do that? They've already proven to be completely worthless as allies. Sure, we save them when the Nazis come marching into Paris, but when we get buildings blown up don't look to them to help. Not that they'd be a whole lot of help, (except if the terrorists forgot how to surrender, the french could help with that.)

It seems odd how angry they are over Saddam not having WMDs, you'd think that the French wouldn't need to be persuaded much, after all, the last time they asked for more proof it came marching into Paris under a Nazi flag.

The question we must ask is: why are the French and Germans so rabidly against the war? You wouldn't be too happy if someone cut off your oil supply either! Oil for Food has proven that Saddam was corrupt, it has been proven time and time again that he had dealings with France. So why do we care what they say anyway? After all, funding those that fund terrorists is like giving Bin Laden the check personally. I wonder if the French people know about what their government does behind their backs, I wonder how well they REALLY know Chirac.

Islam, Religion of Piece(s)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6913272/

Yeah, Islam really must be peaceful, yeah right. 50 dead? That's five-zero folks. And why? Not because they hate the American troops, if it was that, they could just wait it out. No, they target civilians, innocents, unarmed businessmen and foodservice workers alike, they don't care who they kill, they just want to kill.

They attack on the holiest day of the year. Now that's honor for you ladies and gentlemen. "suicide bombers, who staged attacks in and around Baghdad, targeting religious gatherings and Iraqi checkpoints" Religious gatherings? What now? I didn't hear them, did he just say that they would attack people trying to practice their religion? Where's the ACLU on this? This is a violation of the freedom of religion! Of course, nobody from the ACLU would join the army to stop the terrorists, they're more concerned about nativity scenes and whether the constitution really does mean freedom of religion for christians.

It's obvious that these people do not truly care about a cause, most of the insurgents are from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan anyway, they're not real Iraqis trying to "free" themselves from America's imperialism. They're just terrorists that want to take out as many free people as they can.

Brainwashing and blowing buildings.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148017,00.html

Basically that says that the Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Iran has no intentions to build nuclear weapons. I smell the distinct odor of b.s.

First of all, here's a quote from the story: "Moscow has helped Iran build a nuclear reactor..." I wonder how Putin plans to explain that one. I honestly believe that Putin could very well become the world's next dictator, he's got all he needs, plenty of weapons and propaganda.

If in fact, Putin actually believes Iran, then I wonder how he would rationalize the Syrian-Iranian treaty that I talked about yesterday. They agreed to that alliance to "defend themselves against America" What are they going to use to "defend" themselves if not nuclear weapons?

Putin already is getting rid of laws and stifling political opponents, I think this problem may be more than we see on the surface, could it be that Russia joins Iran? I don't know and you don't know, but I sure am looking at Russia in a different light though.

Of oppression and puppets.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147948,00.html

Iran and Syria joining forces, of course, no one was really surprised since everyone knows that Syria is a puppet for Iran. Of course, it's a puppet with nukes, thus making it a threatening puppet. And why shouldn't they be in an alliance against us? Jesus said "They'll hate you, but they hated me first."

Oh my gosh, a radical idea, could it be that Iran and Syria see the U.S. as a threat to their oil business?

It was posed today that the logical thing to do is attack Iran, of course this idea was posed by a liberal, since only liberals can see that as logic. First of all, Iran has nukes, biological weapons and a whole lotta ammunition. It would be insane to attack Iran because when we attacked Iraq, we thought they had WMDs, but not top of the line WMDs, we expected them to be somewhat crude. We know that Iran has the capability to put up a huge fight, especially with Syria on their side.

Our troops are spread thin already, it would be suicidal to attack Iran.

Everyone seems to be freaking out over the idea that there's a treaty between two middle eastern nations. If you think about it logically, we have so many allies if we were to nuke Iran and Syria, we would have many allies, Britain, Poland, and if we could convince Russia, we would have over 10,000 nuclear weapons at our disposal. So my point is, it's not that big of a deal, we're not going to be blown off the face of the earth because two small nations think they can take down freedom.

Hockey, Capitalism, and Common Sense.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147810,00.html

^The above is a link to the story I'll be talking about today, basically it says that the NHL players couldn't reach an agreement with the owners, which means the fans get screwed and there'll be no season. As a fan of hockey, I'm sad, sad that they're unable to let a free market live.

They were apparently debating the salary cap on the league, the players and owners were separated by about $6.5 million dollars.

Let me first say that I'm not in favor of a salary cap, although it keeps the game fair, I believe it stifles the free market in professional sports, because, if you think about it, that's all they're changing, whether or not to allow teams to pay huge sums of money to their players, or employees, as you see it.

Most people see this as a question of players greed, always wanting more. But I don't see it that way, I think that if you don't think that NHL players should be payed $10 million, pick up a stick and score goals better. I have to side with the players here folks, no salary cap, pay them as they can be paid. It's capitalism if you think about it. Farewell.

Free speech my foot.

As most of you know, there is a professor at the University of Colorado named Ward Churchill that has written an essay in which he compares the victims of 9-11 to nazis, the paper is basically a hippie pot-induced haze gone awry. I have read the essay in it's entirety (boredom, not in school) as it was suggested before I comment on it, and now that I have read it, I know the context and how it was written, and what has been said was not taken out of context.

I watched a program on C-Span with a speech by him with a Q and A segment at the end, which basically meant that his adoring students could worship him in all his glory. It was a sham, not really a Q and A since he only let those that opposed him speak for 3 seconds. When asked for clarification about an answer, he refused. One more thing, he teaches Ethnic Studies while claiming to be a Cherokee Indian, although the Cherokee Nation has denied that he is a Cherokee. The only guideline to join the Cherokee Nation is that you have to have 1 blood relative that was an indian, it doesn't matter how far you go back, if you can find ONE than you can join. Apparently he is unable to find even one relative that is an indian since he is not a part of the Cherokee Nation. So basically, I have some indian blood, it may be cherokee I really don't know, so I could become a member before Churchill could. And considering that that is the entire reason he was hired, perhaps they might want to rethink that.

My opinion on this whole thing is that I think that although what he's written is despicable, he has the right to say it and should be allowed to say it, and that is what makes America great, if he can't spew lies, then is there any freedom that is worth anything? It's that belief in freedom that founded America, it started us, and it keeps us going to this day. Farewell.

Free speech?

Intro

Well since this is the first post of my new blog, let me introduce myself. I am Pete, I'm merely a young conservative that likes to post his views on the internet because his communist teachers stifle his 1st Amendment rights in the classroom. Any comments are welcome, but i'm kind of new to the whole, internet blogging thing so I don't know how to post comments.

This'll probably be the only post that isn't dedicated to my passionate pursuit of politics.

I hope to post on this site rather often, it'll be my main political stage since I don't think my xanga readers enjoy hearing my rants.
Now I have one thing to say to all my teachers: You can shut me up in the classroom, but here it's a different story.